1. What year did SPE officially start?

1957

2. What plain term describes micro-paleontologists, who examine micro-fossils from well
cuttings to learn more about the depositional environment?
Bug Pickers

3. Who were the founded members of OPEC?

Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Venezuela.

4. A pipe under axial tension is most likely to undergo what type of failure?
Collapse

5. The spindle and the drill occurs when the bit rotates off its vertical axis.
Whirl

6. Vibrations that induce in the bit an intermittent movement that makes it lose contact with the
formation. The bit bounce at the bottom of the well.
Bit bounce.

7. Load losses from the friction generated at the well walls cause the pressure along the well to
increase and become larger than the hydrostatic pressure of the fluid. What does this pressure
express in terms of drilling fluid weight?
ECD (equivalent circulating density)

8. Twist that stops the drill from turning for a few minutes. The energy then stored and
generated by the pause is then released, accelerating the BHA.
Slip-stick

9. Only allows the flow of drilling fluid from within the column to annular. It prevents that in
case of unbalance of pressures between the annular and the inside of the column, there is a
reverse flow that will clog the jet of the drill or dislodge special tools of continuous
directional registration.
Float sub

10. Top 10 biggest oil companies

Sinopec, China National Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell, ExxonMobil, Saudi Aramco, BP,
Total S.A., Kuwait Petroleum Corp, Chevron, Lukoil

11. What was I. G. Farben?

 Largest German synthetic fuel chemical company

12. Who is Frederich Bergius?

First man to successfully extract liquid from coal

13. Who was Frank Howard?

Head of Research for Standard Oil of New Jersey in 1926

14. What was Carl Bosch?

Chairman of I. G. Farben

15. Who is Walter Teagle?

President of Standard Oil of New Jersey (1917-1926)

16. Who is known as the founding father of Geophysics?

Everette Lee DeGolyer

17. Capillary pressure.

This is normally defined as the pressure in the wetting phase minus the pressure in non-
wetting phase.

18. According to BP’s 2014 Statistical Review, which regions uses most coal in world and which
country uses most within region?
Asia + China.

19. Name second largest LNG importer beside Japan?

South Korea

20. Following recent push into Arctic, Russia has build the first Arctic drilling rig called
Pirazlomnaya. Which sea does the rig operate and by which environmental group was it
boarded recently?
Pechora Sea and Greenpeace

21. Carbonate sedimentary rock mostly consisting of Calcite is called?

Limestone

22. Name the President of Brazil

Dilma Rousseff
23. The country with 3rd largest proven oil reserves according to US Energy Information
Administration?
Canada

24. Standard length of drill pipe?

30 ft

25. Name 2 parameters that define the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of
flowing liquid if no phase change takes place.
Specific heat, mass flowrate

26. When was the first issue of SPE Journal published?

1961

27. In what year did SPE is incorporated separated from AIME?

1985

28. When was SPE founded?

1957, as part of the AIME, separated later.

29. When was the first Middle East Oil and Gas Show and Conference is held?
1979

30. What is AIME and how is it relevant?

American Institute of Mining Engineers. Until 1950’s there was only a petroleum division in
AIME and no SPE.

31. If a contact angle of a fluid wetting a solid surface is 90 degrees, what does this signify?
Neutral wettability.

32. An oil reservoir that is to be produced by water flood has been display fractional flow curve.
Assuming the water is immobile, according to the frontal displacement theory what is the
average water saturation in the swept region prior to water breakthrough?
0.55

33. What is the expected flow regimes in fractured reservoirs?

Bi-linear, linear, elliptical, radial.

34. Name the 4 parameters used to calculate the Reynolds number.

Density, velocity, diameter, viscosity.
35. Kinematic viscosity is defined as dynamic viscosity/density and is called centistokes. What
are its units?
mm2*s-1

36. Name 4 components of an electric submersible pumps.

Rotor, stator, housing, surface controls, multistaged centrifugal pump

37. Jet pumps and electric submersible pumps are popular. What kind of pumps are these, if not
static?
Dynamic pumps.

38. Which slower elastic body sound wave cannot travel through liquid?
S wave.

39. The 4 major compounds of Portland cement are:

C3S, C2S, C3A, C4AF.

40. Name the first US state to ban hydraulic fracturing

Vermont

41. 5 types of reservoir fluids?

Black oil, condensate, wet gas, dry gas.

42. Removal of corrosive gases such as carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulphide is called:
Sweetening (sour gas sweetening)

43. When a source roch is examined under a reflective microscope, the reflection of this organic
matter helps to find the maturity of the source rock, what is it called?
Vitrinite.

44. Name the leading exporter of LNG.

Qatar.

45. What is EOR?

Enhanced Oil Recovery

46. In formation evaluation, what is “m”?

The porosity exponent in the Archie Equation: F=1/phi^m
47. What is 1D seismic data used for?
To correct the sonic log (and can generate synthetic seismogram displaying changed in
amplitude versus travel time).

48. What does 3D seismic data show?

Measure of subsurface reflectivity.

49. What is 3C seismic data?

Multi-component seismic data taken using 3 orthogonally oriented geophones or
accelerators. Allows to determine the type of wave and its direction of propagation.

50. ISIP
Instantaneous Shut In Pressure